My grandmother has Multiple Sclerosis. She has had MS for 35 years, longer than I have been alive. I only have one memory of her standing and that was only with the help of a walker. Every memory since then she has been confined to a wheel chair or a bed. My memories of my grandmother are probably different from most childrenâ??s. I remember having to climb on her kitchen counter to get things out of the cabinet because she could not reach that high. I remember when she moved into our house, she couldnâ??t come to my room because the hallway was not wide enough for her wheelchair. I remember having to run and get my dad when she needed to go to bed, the bathroom, or when she had fallen out of her wheelchair. I remember when my dad could no longer help her and my parents had to decide to move my grandmother to a nursing home. I remember when she started having problems feeding herself. I remember when she could no longer push the wheels on her chair and got an electric one. I remember when it became too hard for her to sit up for more than three or four hours. My new memories are of having to feed my grandmother because she can not feed herself and the look on her face because she can no longer do for herself and that takes away a little of her pride. I have new memories of many trips to the hospital because she cannot move and develops horrible sores all over her body. My grandmother is a witty, intelligent, caring, interesting person who for 35 years has watched her body stop working. She has fought a terrific battle and through it all keeps her humor and her humility. The myelin around her nerves has been deteriorating and will no longer carry signals for her body to work, and she knows exactly what is happening to her. My grandmother is my hero, she has more hope than I would in her situation, I donâ??t know how she does it. I love her for what she has taught me, never give up, no matter how hard things look, because you still have family and people who love you and that is worth living for no matter what you have to battle. Because of my love for my grandmother I am voting YES for stem cell research. If this amendment can give someone else with MS a better fighting chance than my grandmother and give other children different memories, than it is worth it. Think about your life, is there someone in it who suffers from MS, Alzheimerâ??s, Parkinsonâ??s, ALS, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Severe Burns, Sickle Cell, or a Spinal Cord Injury? If you could answer yes to any of these, than you should vote YES on amendment 2 as well, do it for them. Donâ??t get distracted by the lies, think about the lives. There is a $250,000 fine and 15 year jail sentence in the amendment for anyone who attempts to clone. This is not a cloning amendment, this is a life saving, life changing, memory making amendment. Please, think about it, pray about it, do the right thing for the people you love, I know I will.